Saturday, August 07, 2010

Andy Martino Game Recap

The Mets played a smart, polite, joy-to-watch game of hardball last night but unfortunately their manners and skill could not overcome the uncouth and poorly-hygienic Phillies. And on a night where the Phillies celebrated a mullut-wearing, space-traveling, Hooters-marrying catcher, it should be no surprise that sense and dignity would fail on the baseball field.

The game was relatively uninteresting until the bottom of the eighth inning when the Phillies completely went off script and began hitting balls away from the Mets fielders. This resulted in an unseemly parade of pinstriped bastards prancing arrogantly from base to base, most of them arriving at home plate with an heir of entitlement that that surely made proletariat catcher Josh Thole nauseous.

Even new Phillie Mike Sweeney, despite being with the team only for a few days, has already become a condescending brute. In spite of an already comfortable four run lead, Sweeney violently hit a Manny Acosta speedball into left field scoring another cretin Phillies player.

Despite the bases smelling like bourgeois pride after the 8th inning, the Mets courageously scored three of their own players in the 9th. This was obviously due to Mike Hessman's valiant desire to provide the local fans with a home run baseball souvenir. Even in defeat, the Mets never stop thinking about others, do they?

The Mets still have two games left in this series [tonight, 7:05, Hamels v Santana]. Hopefully, for the sake of the universe, good will prevail over evil at least once...

12 comments:

I was holding my breath when Chollie brought in Baez and Romero. They did not disappoint. Baez allowed two runners and Romero ensured that both scored by throwing a tater. With guys like these, no 5 run lead goes unpunished.

Andy you are an F'n Homo. Nobody seemed to care that the Mets of old were crack smokin, cocaine sniffin thugs, and they ran over the NL in the late 80's. Yeah I want to go to dinner with Doc, Straw, HoJo, and G Carter and the rest of the gang.

Jayson Werth is a very good player, but he plays stupid. Getting thrown out at 3rd was just bad baseball.

Then having Polanco bunt in the 8th was stupid too. Polly had a better shot and getting a hit then laying down a bunt to advance the runners, because Johan's a top-notch fielder. Phils are wasting yet another Hamels gem. I'm actually going to say thing- Hamels has been unlucky.

Wow. just saw the boxscore. Hamels with quite a gem and no run support??? This is what we can expect from this patchwork lineup. The past week may have been the exception to the rule. Just gotta stay in it long enough to get full strength and beat Atlanta head-to-head.